Background Incidence of postharvest losses in the fresh produce value chain is a worldwide
concern facing food security and sustainability. Postharvest losses can occur along the …

Consumers are increasingly demanding fruit of consistent high quality. Mechanical damage,
which can occur during harvesting, packing house operations, handling and transport …

Fresh fruits are susceptible to bruising, a common type of mechanical damage during
harvest and at all stages of postharvest handling. In quest of developing and adoption of …

The aim of the present work was to develop 3D discrete element models capable of
simulating the observed flow of glass beads (simple glass spheres) and maize grains …

Since many years food engineers have attempted to describe physical phenomena such as
heat and mass transfer that occur in food during unit operations by means of mathematical …

The incidence of fruit postharvest losses and waste due to mechanical damage during
handling is a major problem in the fresh produce industry Among the various range of force …

Grain kernels are finite and discrete materials. Although flowing grain can behave like a
continuum fluid at times, the discontinuous behavior exhibited by grain kernels cannot be …

The finite element method is used to investigate the validity of the Hertz model for normal
contact under conditions that violate some of the assumptions on which the Hertz model was …

Bruising is one of the most common mechanical damages of fruit, but it is difficult to detect
quantitatively. In this study, the finite element method (FEM) was utilized to predict the bruise …

Annually, large quantities of apple are destroyed and suffer from quality loss because of
bruising and other mechanical damages during harvesting, transportation, storage and …